thohnton



uitrit `tartes stent` fr.

IB.l THORNTON, OF M'DISON, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 69,048, dated September 17, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVISE POB HITGH'ING-'HRSES @te dgehul'e referrer tu it time stters ntent ant making part ni tigt samt;

TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, J. B. THORNTON, of Madison, in the county of Dane, and State of" Wisconsin, haveinvented a new and improved Device for Hitching Horses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, which lwill enablel others skilled in the art to make andv use the same, referi ence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming'patt of this specification.

The present invention relates to a new device to be attached to the inside' end of a carriage-wheel`hub, by-` means of which, if the horse or horses harnessed in and to the' carriage, be hitched to such device, upon any. attempt to move forward the wheel is turned sud''ciently to draw in the rein and thus stop them, while if they` :nove backward the device is free to' slip around the wheel-hub, and no harm is occasioned. In the accompanying drawings my improved device for bitching horses is illustrated, the figure being a central transverse section-` `ofv the same; f l v l l A is a springcoiled or wound sprally about and around a wheel-hub,- B, with notches, @,of which, by l means of its hook-shaped e'nd',it becomes engaged, and thus made to tightly wind the lspring about the hub, as i by the movementof the horse or horses harnessed in the carriage the said wheel. is turned. i D, a strap fastened i to outer coil of spring A, from" which it is extended, and has at its outer'end asnap-hook, E, for being engaged'. i

with the rein of harnesses. F, bolts iixed in wheel-hubs for catching the stra-p D when not to be used.

I claim as new,A and desire to secure by Letters P'atent- A device for bitching horses, constructed and applied to wheel-hubs, substantially' as andl for the purposeV described.

The above specification 0f my invention signed by me' this l'fthlday of June, 186?.

J.` B. THORNTON. Witnesses:

Cms. C. G. THORNTON, W. B. .IA-nvm; 

